Dialogues Across Differences – (a three day training)

Training & Consultation Series

Preparing individuals, communities, organizations and coalitions that are strengthening their transformative work towards healing and equity-based relationships in divisive times.

This training is from 10:30am to 2:30pm EST. on November 20, 2025. Part 1 of a 3 part, 4 hour a day training series.

Dialogues Across Differences is a training intensive offered in the tradition of Popular Education. This institute strengthens your project’s current abilities to effectively dialogue across profound differences of social location, experience, identity and understanding in a way that finds and amplifies the inherent value of all community members while cultivating connection. This skillset emphasizes collaborative meaning making.

Drawing on teachings from Popular Education, ten global wisdom teachings, Dialogue Education and theories of adult learning, we will practice shaping dialogue and engaging in challenging and fruitful conversations across differences in a way that strengthens us all.

Learning Centered Objectives

By the end of our time together, you will have:

• Engaged others in a process of dialogue that employs a set of Popular Education principles that are respectful, empowering and accountable.
• Worked with content about intersectional oppression, anticipating tensions to address common and predictable misconceptions, values and conflicts in our communities and culture.
• Found restorative resources for oneself.
• Learned when to apply this learning and when best to hold back or switch to a companion skill set.
• Identified powerful facilitative questions that effectively move us through tension together.

for the three day registration please click on the link; https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/ocq3B5bqTXSE0nAMJB4FzQ

Sliding scale:

Group rates; 5 slots at $275 each or 5 slots at $350 each. Full cost for individual $400.

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